St Luke's Gospel Commentary |
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The Kingdom of Christ - The Gospel of Mercy - To whom the book is dedicated. When it was written. -The Gospel of Mary. The Prologue. - May our life be a living Gospel. - Gabriel announces the miraculous conception of John the Baptist. - Zechariah becomes mute. - In an unbeliever the spirit becomes dumb and prayer is silenced. -- Elizabeth becomes pregnant. - How to fight spiritual sterility. - The annunciation of the Angel to Mary. Humility. - The holy young Virgin of Nazareth. - Saint Joseph. - The prayer of Mary - And behold an Angel of appeared. - Faith and reason. - Mary believed: “Here is the handmaid of the Lord…” - And the Word became Flesh. - The Heart of Mary, tabernacle of the Everlasting. - Mary meets with St. Elizabeth. - The greeting of Mary. - The greeting of St. Elizabeth. - The sublime canticle of Mary. - The Flower of the Old Covenant – The Magnificat. - The Jewish people. - Mary announces the Savior. - The fertile Gem of the New Covenant…- Synthesis and Program of the Church. - The Church wants to save, must save. - An example from history. - The canticle of the loving soul. - The Magnificat of humility. - A shining picture of the life of the Redeemer and of Mary. - A perpetual voice in the Kingdom of God. - Dazzling light in the darkness of exile. - The birth of John the Baptist. - His name is John. - The canticle of Zechariah. - John the Baptist withdraws in the desert. The solemn and peaceful moment of the birth of Jesus. - The Birth of Jesus. - The announcement to the shepherds and their visit. - An Angel appeared to the shepherds. The political status of Palestine at the time of John the Baptist. - The preaching of St. John the Baptist. - The insignificance of human greatness. The true greatness that is humility. - John bears witness to Jesus. - The witness of the Father and the Holy Spirit. - Genealogy of Jesus and the ascending genealogy of the soul. The mystery of the temptations of Jesus in the desert. - The fasting of Jesus. - The first temptation. - Man does not lives of bread alone. - but of every word of God. - The boat of Peter and the teaching of the Church. - The miraculous catch. - After the night of apostasy, the boat of Peter will be full of a miraculous catch. - The healing of the leper. - The leprosy of sin. - Two boats were at sea. - Jesus withdraws to solitary places to pray. - Jesus praying: the eternal lamp before the Father. - The Eucharist, the great school of our prayer. - The healing of the paralytic and the remission of sins. - The forgiveness of sins. - Jesus forgives sins, therefore He is God. - The joy of feeling free from sin. - The vocation of Levi, the issue of fasting and the prudent consideration of the ways of the spirit. - The Pharisee are scandalized. - The answer of Jesus to the Pharisees. - For those who guide the direction of souls… - In the ways of the Lord, the holy newness. The ears of wheat and the Sabbath. - The withered hand. - Election of the Apostles. - The Beatitudes and the woes. - Love for one’s enemies. - Warning to the Pharisees and Christian charity. - Divine dominion over times and mankind. - Jesus heals the man with a withered hand. The persecutors of the Church. - The election of the Apostles and the profile of the Church through the centuries. - The election of Judas Iscariot. - The elected Apostles. - For the Apostles and for those who spread the kingdom of God. - The kingdom of God can only be established in charity. The servant of the centurion. - The faith of the centurion, model of our faith. - The widow of Naim’s son. - The young who are dead to grace - The disciples of St. John the Baptist go to Jesus to ask questions on behalf of their teacher. - Jesus praises John the Baptist. - The never-satisfied. - The irritable. - The repentant sinner at the foot of Jesus. - We the sinners and the mercy of God.
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